Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain

Download or read book Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain written by Daniel Romer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annenberg Public Policy Center's Adolescent Risk Communication Institute held a conference with the purpose of producing an integrated volume of this interdisciplinary area. Presenters/chapter contributors were asked to address two questions: What neurodevelopmental processes in children and adolescents could be altered so that mental disorders might be prevented? And what interventions or life experiences might be able to introduce such changes? The book has a 5-part structure: biological and social universals in development ;